Hacker News: thr0w

New comment by thr0w in "Layoff Thinking"

thr0w — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:29:30 +0000

You should be able to open a brokerage account. You generally need ~2 years of business history to get a loan.

New comment by thr0w in "What being ripped off taught me"

thr0w — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:02:24 +0000

We sound similar, I've had some adventures on AngelList. Made an absolute killing, back when that was possible.

My total lifetime "ate it" figure is only $2k, and even that one the client kind of eventually offered to pay, but I just let it be because I wanted to put as much distance between myself and them for other reasons.

Best advice in the article? "Trust your gut". If something feels vaguely off, I walk away immediately. I can see those non-paying incubators coming a mile away. Biggest indicator beyond gut: do they have existing contractors who seem happy? Ask them pointblank if they're getting paid. Easy as that. And of course, if they are paying you, but then stop paying you, or delay paying you, then stop work immediately.

Agree, YC founders are the worst type of person.

New comment by thr0w in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

thr0w — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:22:55 +0000

> What is there to be left behind from?

Employment?

New comment by thr0w in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

thr0w — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:16:17 +0000

You sweet, innocent child.

Managers understand that metrics are meaningless. The idea is to have something to point at to scare engineers into jumping higher.

New comment by thr0w in "Trunk Based Development"

thr0w — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:07:04 +0000

Who cares.

Prescribed workflows apply solutions from the wrong direction.

Determine what's impeding your organization, devise a solution.

The last guy I encountered who evangelized something like this had smart frames and a Lovecraft anthology prominently perched in the background of his Zoom shot.

New comment by thr0w in "Claude Opus 4.6"

thr0w — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:06:39 +0000

People are in denial and use humor to deflect.

New comment by thr0w in "A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism"

thr0w — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:30:06 +0000

Was Hegelian dialectic on your card? You do bad stuff, and then you do good stuff. That's what all of these people are into.

New comment by thr0w in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

thr0w — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:50:21 +0000

> But if you’re down, Spotify is down, social media is down… then “the internet is broken” and you don’t look so bad.

In my direct experience, this isn't true if you're running something even vaguely mission-critical for your customers. Your customer's workers just know that they can't do their job for the day, and your customer's management just knows that the solution they shepherded through their organization is failing.

New comment by thr0w in "Dead Framework Theory"

thr0w — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:12:56 +0000

LLMs will not abstract away framework choice. They will concrete it away. React is for humans. You'll know we're out of the AI stoneage when coding models just generate direct machine instruction, because their output won't need to be touched by humans.

New comment by thr0w in "Developers are choosing older AI models"

thr0w — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:17:08 +0000

Doesn't surprise me. davinci-002 was better than davinci-003. The core breakthrough has been done, stuff's just shifting around now.

New comment by thr0w in "Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles"

thr0w — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:09:42 +0000

Postgres for agents, of course! It makes too much sense.

New comment by thr0w in "Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits"

thr0w — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:50:06 +0000

What is it about streaming specifically that necessitates this? Am I missing something obvious?

New comment by thr0w in "React vs. Backbone in 2025"

thr0w — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:45:22 +0000

Would've been helpful if they tried to make the code as close as possible, e.g. use the same struct (and var name) for the password requirements.

New comment by thr0w in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

thr0w — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:19:42 +0000

I know Node has the new permissions model thing, but why can’t this be as easy as blocking all fs access above cwd? I’d love a global Node setting for this.

New comment by thr0w in "A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)"

thr0w — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:03:25 +0000

Less interested in interpretation, more interested in the fact that lots of people have the same nightmares (squishy brakes, class test and you haven't been to school in decades, etc.). Here's one - I desperately need to make a phone call or send a text or enter an address into Maps, but I just make typos over and over. Anyone else?

New comment by thr0w in "A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)"

thr0w — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:24:07 +0000

Yeah I have the squishy/very soft/not really working brake nightmare.

New comment by thr0w in "What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?"

thr0w — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:45:15 +0000

So simple classification problem. Big deal.

New comment by thr0w in "America is now one big bet on AI"

thr0w — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:36:54 +0000

> intolerable and torturous acts which have become so commonplace today

What are you referring to?

New comment by thr0w in "Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme"

thr0w — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 02:04:07 +0000

Never met him personally, but one of his companies tried to recruit me for a database migration project. Part of the interview process included responding to the question "I enjoy having sex with people I hardly know" on a scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree.

New comment by thr0w in "If you are harassed by lasers"

thr0w — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:35:16 +0000

Was just about to post this - thought I was neurotic for taping over LED displays in the 2000s. My sight and hearing get annoyingly sensitive when I'm in bed at night.